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Electronic Vandals Deface
World Wide Web Pages

By

Sewell ChanStaff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated June 26, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

Graffiti artists are defacing cyberspace.

Invading sites on the Internet's World Wide Web with impunity, they are scrawling words and images on others' work at will. Victims include the British government, the Nation of Islam and the American Psychoanalytic Association, which have had their Web pages defaced, erased, or, in one case, replaced, by intruders.